Critical Race Theory 101

As one of the preeminent scholars of critical race theory and its reading of history, Ibram X. Kendi, professor in the Humanities and the founding director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research, columnist at The Atlantic, author of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Bold Type Books, 2016)and the co-editor of Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 (One World, 2021), talks about what it means as an academic approach and why it's become a cultural hot button.